Sotomayor: Courts not making policy?

I was completely disgusted by Judge Sotomayor’s testimony today. If she was not perjuring herself, she is intellectually unqualified to be on the Supreme Court. If she was perjuring herself, she is morally unqualified. How could someone who has been on the bench for seventeen years possibly believe that judging in hard cases involves no more than applying the law to the facts?

Of course, they know and we know that, once she gets on the bench, we’ll see the real Sotomayor and that won’t resemble the modest, impartial, almost conservative-leaning judge that we are seeing this week.

You can continue to watch the hearings live here (below the fold since it starts playing immediately):

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10 Responses to “Sotomayor: Courts not making policy?”

The truth is out there, but according to Lindsey Graham it doesn’t matter. She’ll be confirmed unless she has a complete breakdown…? How about a truthful and complete breakdown of her activities as a justice?

It was always fun to watch the nominees finesse the pols but this retreat and fabrication is simply demeaning to the office and Judge Sotomayor. Her attitude seems to be now that she will say anything to get the position and then will proceed on the path of her beliefs with only the minor detour of having to defend herself in front of the legislature and the citizens.

Maybe Republican Senators should take off the kid gloves and, as they say, “grow a pair”. Sonia Sotomayor has an established and documented judicial record, which puts her in conflict with our Constitution on many issues. For those Repub…

That’s an odd use of the term irredentism considering the only people that are calling for a return to the status ante quo are Chicano activists crying in their beer about some lost Aztlan epoch. The rest is just a jumble of unsourced and nonsensical claims that have absolutely no relation to facts. Just one for example in that the GDP of Cuba is only about 5% higher now than when Castro took over and because of a slight rise in population the GDP per capita is actually less. Maybe that explains the still attempts by Mexicans, Central Americans and South Americans to be hungy in the US rather than in those wonderfully enlightened countries that the qudrangle of caudillos mentioned above are still running into the ground.

Besides what better Constitution in the world has ever begun with the all-encompassing phrase, “We the People..?” While that gloriously muddle of the Cuban Constitution spends most of the preamble talking about dead people.